My Disney Mania

ZapperZ's and Philaduckia's Blog on everything Disney. We are Disney Vacation Club members, Walt Disney World Annual Passholders, and Disney Pin collector. All of them make for a very lethal combination! :)

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

The statement said Disney's development of the 700-acre (280-hectare)
property will amount to an investment of between $250 million and $400
million.

The statement also says Disney will donate 190 acres (more than 75
hecatres) of the land including the southernmost tip of the island to
the government for a national park. The donated land has a value of
$6.29 million.

It definitely will be a reason to go on a Caribbean cruise when they finally get this island ready.

Friday, October 19, 2018

Finally, Disney will build something at the long-neglected site of the former water park River Country.

Walt Disney World Resort
is building a new hotel with more than 900 beds on Bay Lake where the
former River Country water park was once located, the company said
Thursday.

The unnamed deluxe resort, set to open in 2022, will be
in between Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort
& Campground, Disney said in a news release.

My question is, what was taking them so long? The site has been abandoned for such a long time, one starts to wonder if there was something inherently wrong with the location.

It will be interesting to see if it will have a "wilderness" theme to match the two resorts that bookend the location. I hope that it will be distinct enough from those two to make it interesting and unique.

Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment on the 25th anniversary of Nightmare Before Christmas, Selick
went in-depth about the process of creating his characters, his
disagreements with Disney (the studio wanted Jack to have eyeballs) and
Burton (who hated one of Selick’s favorite scenes), the twist ending
that didn’t get made, and whether the glorious, laborious art of
stop-motion animation will survive this century.